16.5/20
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Friday, June 20, 2025
Memento Amoris
Remember you must love. Perhaps not the predominant emotion in a remote island in the quarantined British Isles, but Spike (Alfie Williams) shows affection, and how. While the first half is about Spike and his father Jamie (Aaron Taylor Johnson) sussing out the mainland in a coming of age for the former, the second half is a far more emotional story of Spike getting is mother Isla (Jodie Comer) her deliverance. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland dont miss a beat in 28 Years Later. Spectacular work by Alfie. Unmissable for the apocalypse fans, with character arcs instead of pitched battles with violent hordes
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Swan Lake grace
Eva Macarro (Ana de Armas) is orphaned early in life - and finds herself at the Continental Hotel and trained to be a assassin in Ballerina. Several slick but predictable assassin sequences later, Eva finds the mark of her father's killers on one assassin - which loops somehow to Baba Yaga (Keanu Reeves) and the Ruska Roma. Ana de Armas lacks the extreme physicality of Keanu Reeves and the smoldering rage, but covers some decent ground with litheness and improvisation. All in all a good watch but not necessarily unmissable

15/20
Labels:
Ana de Armas,
Angelica Huston,
Gabriel Byrne,
Ian McShane,
Keanu Reeves
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